Executive Director Lynn Paltrow spoke at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, hosted by Newcomb College Institute at Tulane. Ms. Paltrow gave a campus-wide talk Thursday evening, January 30, and a "Fridays at Newcomb" lunch talk on Friday, January 31.

As an ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organization (NGO) with consultative status with the United Nations, NAPW will have representatives in attendance at meetings and events for this year's 58th Annual UN Woman Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the United Nations in New York from March 10-21.

From October 23-26, 2013, the Drug Policy Alliance will host the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Denver, Colorado. NAPW is a 2013 conference partner, and Executive Director, Lynn Paltrow, is a DPA funded partner scholarship recipient and will moderate a roundtable panel entitled, "Overlooked Punishment: The Drug War's Insidious Reach Beyond the Criminal Justice System." This panel will foster a discussion about the use of the child welfare system to expand the war on drugs between Lynn Paltrow, Emma Ketteringham (Managing Attorney, Bronx Defenders), Sara Arnold (writer/advocate), Jess Cochrane (Northeastern University JD/MPH student), and others.

The Reform Conference exists as a space for people who believe the war on drugs does more harm than good to gather, build bridges, strategize, and mobilize around drug policy and for reform. Please visit the conference website for more information.

Rutgers University Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research will hold a "Symposium on Maternal and Fetal Bodies" from November 8-10, 2013. NAPW Executive Director, Lynn Paltrow, will sit on a panel with Lara Freidenfels, Leslie Reagan, and Carol Singer on November 8th addressing "The impact of the abortion debate on the experience of pregnancy, childbirth, and abortion." Ms. Paltrow will specifically address: "The impact of the abortion debate on and the threat to women's personhood."

The University of Maine Farmington will host a speaker series this fall semester on Sexual and Reproductive Justice. The forum series will tackle and start dialogue on the following issues: "In response to the complex issues behind today’s headlines on marriage equality, healthcare access and reproductive laws, the University of Maine at Farmington is holding a series of free and open to the public events on Sexual and Reproductive Justice. This series hopes to help define the principles of reproductive and sexual justice and to discuss how they can be achieved through education, care, activism and public policy."NAPW Executive Director Lynn Paltrow will be a series speaker on Thursday, November 14, 2013 addressing “40 years After Roe v Wade: Reproductive Justice in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” at 7 p.m. in Thomas Auditorium, UMF Preble/Ricker Halls. Further information about the series and other speakers throughout the semester can be found on the series website.

Take Root: Red States Perspectives on Reproductive Justice conference announced its 2014 dates. Save the date to join us in Norman, Oklahoma on February 21 & 22, 2014 for the only (yes only!) annual reproductive justice conference for red state folks and by red state organizers!